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Living up to its noble
ideals of “Bahujan Hitaya, Bahujan Sukhaya”, the News Services Division (NSD)
of AIR strives to provide news and views to every dweller in this vast country
in varied terrains, 24X7, in all major languages and dialects, while adhering
to highest professional ethics and standards in Radio Broadcasting.

SET UP OF NSD

The News Services Division is headed by a Director General (News),
who is one of the senior most officers of the Indian Information
Service. He is assisted by a team of Additional Directors General
(News), Directors (News) and Joint Directors (News), Deputy Directors (News),
Asstt. Directors (News), News Editors and Reporters etc. The different
operational wings of NSD at headquarters in Delhi include: General
News Room, Hindi News Room, Reporting Unit, Talks and Current Affairs Unit,
Newsreel Unit, Indian Language Units, Reference and PP&D Unit, IT &
Website unit and Administrative Wing. The Regional News Units in
various States are headed by an officer of the rank of Director or Deputy
Director/Assistant Director and assisted by News Editors, Reporters and
Newsreaders-cum-Translators.

EARLY HISTORY

The history of news broadcasting in India is
much older than that of All India Radio. The firstnews bulletin in the country went on the air
from the Bombay Station on July 23, 1927 under a private company, the
Indian Broadcasting Company. A month later on August 26,
1927 another bulletin in Bengali was started from the Calcutta
Station. Until 1935, two bulletins, one each in English and
Hindustani were broadcast from Bombay and a bulletin in Bengali was
broadcast from Calcutta. The Indian Broadcasting Company went
into liquidation in March, 1930 following which broadcasting came under the
direct control of the Government of India. The service was
designated as the Indian State Broadcasting Service. It was renamed
All India Radio on June 8, 1936.

DEVELOPMENT

The real breakthrough in news broadcasting came after
January 1936 when the first news bulletin from the Delhi Station went on the
air on January 19, 1936 coinciding with the starting of its transmission. Besides,
news bulletins in English and Hindustani, talks on current affairs were also
started from the Station in both the languages.

The Central News Organization was set up
on August 1, 1937. Mr. Charles Barnes took charge as the first
News Editor in September and he later became the first Director of
News. The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 gave an impetus
to the development of the Organization. The Monitoring Service was
set up in 1939 to monitor foreign broadcasts. In 1943, the External
Broadcast Unit was set up under the Director of News. By 1945, the
Central News Organization was handling news bulletins in different Indian
languages as well as in the External Services. After Independence, news
broadcasts of AIR grew both in quantity and quality. More emphasis was
laid on national and regional news bulletins.

SOURCE OF NEWS

The bulk of AIR news comes from its own Correspondents
spread all over the country. It has more than 90 regular
Correspondents in India and abroad at Colombo, Dhaka, Dubai
and Kathmandu. Apart from this, AIR has over 500 Part-time Correspondents based
at nearly all district headquarters. The PTCs are to meet the
requirements of Doordarshan News also. NSD subscribes to the news wire agencies
– UNI, PTI and their corresponding Hindi services – Univarta and Bhasha.

Regional news bulletins were introduced in
the early fifties. The first such news bulletins were broadcasted in
April, 1953 from Lucknow and Nagpur Stations. In 1954-55,
Regional News Units were set up
at Bombay, Madras and Calcutta. This went on
steadily and at present there are 47 Regional News Units
functioning in different parts of the country. 473 news
bulletins in 77 regional languages/dialects including English
and Hindi are being broadcast from RNUs for a duration of 38
hours. These include 250 headlines bulletins on FM and other
frequencies from 31 stations.

Assamese,
Odia, Malyalam, Tamil NSD bulletins shifted on 24th April 2017 to
respective RNUswhile Marathi and
Gujarati shifted on 5th June 2017, Dogri and Arunachali on 28th
June 2017 and Bengali on 8th July 2017.

·RNU Jaipur started broadcasting FM
headlines in Rajasthani from 10.07.2017.

BULLETINS ON FM ‘RAINBOW’ CHANNEL

The News Services Division has been putting out news
headlines on FM ‘Rainbow’ channel from Delhi since May 28,
1995. Twenty four news headline bulletins on FM ‘Rainbow’ are
broadcast round-the-clock from Delhi. The duration of each
headline FM ‘Rainbow’ bulletin from Delhi is one minute approx. At
present, 22 AIR stations are broadcasting FM Headlines.

TALKS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAMMES

During February 1936, talks on current topics were
introduced for the first time in English. In September that year,
talks on current topics in Hindustani were added. Later ‘Topics for
Today’ and ‘Focus’ on matters of current interests were introduced on 26th
October, 1962. In 1967, the programmes ''Topic for Today'' and
''Focus'' were renamed as ''Spotlight and ''Current Affairs''.

Details of Current Affairs Programmes broadcast
from NSD HQ.

S.
No

Name
of Programme

Frequency

Time
of broadcast

Duration

Language

Name
of Channel

1

Spotlight

Daily

2115-2130 hrs.

15 mts.

English

Rajdhani

2

News Analysis

Daily

2115-2130 hrs.

15 mts.

English

FM Gold

3

Samayiki

Daily

1935-1945 hrs.

10 mts.

Hindi

Indraprastha

4

Current Affairs

Friday

2130-2200 hrs.

30 mts.

English

Rajdhani/

FM Gold

5

Charcha ka Vishai hai

Wednesday

2130-2200 hrs.

30 mts.

Hindi

Indraprastha/

FM Gold

6

Public Speak

Monday

2130-2205 hrs

35 mts.

Bilingual

FM Gold

7

Vaad- Samvaad

Tuesday

2145-2200 hrs

15 mts.

Hindi

FM Gold

8

Surkhiyon Se Pare

Thursday

2145-2200 hrs.

15mts.

Hindi

FM Gold

9

Country Wide

Thursday

2130-2145 hrs.

15mts.

Bilingual

FM Gold

10

Market Mantra

Daily

1830-1900 hrs.

30 mts.

Bilingual

FM Gold

11

Money Talk

Tuesday

2130-2145 hrs.

15 mts.

English

FM Gold

12

Sports Scan

Daily

2030-2045 hrs.

15 mts.

Bilingual

FM Gold

13

Newsreel

(English)

Mon/Tue/Thu/

Sat

2020-2030 hrs.

10 mts.

English

Rajdhani

14

Samachar Darshan (Hindi)

Wed/Fri/Sun

2020-2030 hrs.

10 mts.

Hindi

Indraprastha

15

Press Comments

Daily

1750-1755 hrs

05 mts.

English

Rajdhani

16

Parikarma

(News Magazine Programme)

Daily

1630-1700 hrs

30 mts.

Bilingual

FM Gold

17

Aaj Savere

(News Magazine Programme)

Daily

0730-0800 hrs.

30 mts.

Bilingual

FM Gold

COVERAGE OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS

The daily and weekly reviews of the proceedings in
Parliament during the sessions were introduced on February 14, 1961 in
English and Hindi. The daily review called ‘Today in Parliament’ in
English and ‘Sansad Sameeksha’ in Hindi has two parts, one on the proceedings
in the Lok Sabha and the other on those in the Rajya Sabha. The
weekly review in English – ‘This week in Parliament’ and that in Hindi ‘ Is
Saptah Sansad Main’ – sums up the important highlights of the proceedings in
both Houses during the preceding week.

The broadcast of the daily and ‘Weekly Reviews’ of the
proceedings of the State legislatures, when they are in session, were started
in 1971-72 in the respective regional languages. A review of the
‘Proceedings of the Delhi Assembly’ was started from December 14, 1993.

RADIO NEWSREEL

Radio Newsreel was started on December 10,
1955 both in English (Radio Newsreel) and Hindi (Samachar Darshan)
from Delhi. Newsreel in English is broadcast on Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday while Samachar Darshan is broadcast on Wednesday,
Friday and Sunday. Some Regional News Units also put out regional
Newsreels in the respective regional
languages.

SOCIAL MEDIA

The NSD, AIR has been expanding its presence year after year,
across various domains with the aim to disseminate news to the public and reaching
diverse cross sections of the society. NSD, AIR has embraced new technologies
and practices, since last three years, to add to its traditional platform
and disseminate News and Discussion Programmes on New Media applications,
including Social Media, as Radio+..

Since three years, the
News Services Division has substantially increased its presence on the social
media viz Website, Facebook, Twitter, Soundcloud, YouTube & Instagram
and has crossed major milestones in reaching out to audience far and wide.

Twitter

Started in January, 2013

Over 1.66 million followers

Facebook

Stared in June, 2013

3.3 million likes on NSD facebook accounts

Website

More than 34.3 million successful visits per month.

Sound Cloud

Started in 2014

Over 14 thousand followers

Instagram

Started in January,
2016

107 K Followers

News Schedule

Schedule of daily news bulletins from Delhi
alongwith their channel of broadcast

ENGLISH

S.
No.

Time
(Hrs.)

Duration

Channel

1.

0000-0005

05
mts.

Rajdhani/FM
Gold

2.

0105-0110

05
mts.

National
(MW)

3.

0200-0205

05
mts.

FM
Gold

4.

0305-0310

05
mts.

National
(MW)

5.

0400-0405

05
mts.

FM
Gold

6.

0505-0510

05
mts.

National
(MW)

7.

0605-0610

05
mts.

Rajdhani/
FM Gold

8.

0815-0830

15
mts.

Rajdhani/
FM Gold

9.

0905-0910

05
mts.

Rajdhani

10.

1005-1010

05
mts.

Rajdhani

11

1200-1205

05mts.

Indraprastha/
FM Gold

12.

1300-1305

05
mts.

Rajdhani/
FM Gold

13.

1400-1415

15
mts.

Rajdhani/
FM Gold

14

1500-1505

05
mts

FM
Gold

15.

1600-1605

05
mts.

Rajdhani/
FM Gold

16.

1705-1710

05
mts.

Rajdhani

17.

1800-1805

05
mts.

Rajdhani

18.

2000-2005

05
mts.

RN

19.

2005-2010

05 mts. (Sports)

RN

20.

2100-2115

15
mts.

Rajdhani/FM
Gold

21.

2300-2305

05
mts.

Rajdhani

HINDI

S.
No.

Time
(Hrs.)

Duration

Channel

1.

0005-0010

05
mts.

Indraprastha/
FM Gold

2.

0100-0105

05
mts.

FM
Gold

3.

0205-0210

05
mts.

National
(MW)

4.

0300-0305

05
mts.

FM
Gold

5.

0405-0410

05
mts.

National
(MW)

6.

0500-0505

05
mts.

FM
Gold

7.

0600-0605

05
mts.

Indraprastha/
FM Gold

8.

0700-0705

05
mts.

Indraprastha/
FM Gold

9.

0800-0815

15
mts.

Indraprastha/

FM
Gold

10.

0900-0905

05
mts.

Indraprastha

11

1000-1005

05
mts.

Indraprastha

12.

1100-1105

05
mts.

Indraprastha/
FM Gold

13.

1205-1210

05
mts.

FM
Gold

14

1305-1310

05
mts.

Indraprastha

15.

1415-1430

15
mts.

Indraprastha/
FM Gold

16.

1700-1705

05
mts.

Indraprastha

17.

1805-1810

05
mts.

Indraprastha

18.

1900-1905

05
mts.

Indraprastha

19.

1905-1910

05mts.
(Sports)

FM
Gold

20.

2030-2045

15
mts.

(Sports
Scan)

FM
Gold

21.

2045-2100

15
mts.

Indraprastha

22.

2200-2205

05
mts.

FM
Gold

23.

2305-2310

05 mts.

Indraprastha

1950-2000

10 mts. *(Pradeshik)

Indraprastha

Bulletins
in Indian Languages Broadcast from NSD, HQ.

Sr.No.

Unit

No.
of bulletins

Bulletins

Duration

Total
Broadcast Time

1

NEPALI

4

0750-0800

10
min (ext)

40
min

1230-1240

10
min (ext)

1925-1935

10
min

1950-2000

10
min (ext)

2

KASHMIRI

2

0745-0755

10
min

25
min

1825-1840

15
min

3

SANSKRIT

2

0655-0700

5
min

10
min

1810-1815

5
min

4

PUNJABI

4

0830-0840

10
min

35
min

1340-1350

10
min

1840-1845

05
min (ext)

1930-1940

10
min

5

URDU

13

0615-0625

10
min (ext)

112
min

(1 Hour 52 in)

0850-0905

15
min

0930-0933

03
min (ext)

1350-1400

10
min

1402-1407

05
min (ext)

1650-1700

10
min (ext)

2000-2010

10
min (ext)

2116-2130

14
min

2145-2155

10
min (ext)

2300-2305

05
min (ext)

0230-0240

10
min (ext)

0345-0350

05
min (ext)

Haj
Bull. for Two months

1110-1115

05in
(ext)

Languages of Bulletins

Languages of News bulletins of Eighth
Schedule of Constitution of India:(22)